He has since taken part in a Q&A session for fansite True To You, in which he condemned meat eaters.

"I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia," Morrissey apparently said. "They are both rape, violence, murder. If I'm introduced to anyone who eats beings, I walk away.

"Imagine, for example, if you were in a nightclub and someone said to you 'Hello, I enjoy bloodshed, throat-slitting and the destruction of life', well, I doubt if you'd want to exchange phone numbers."

Morrissey was also asked how it makes him feel to have changed his fans' lives through his music.

"I think it means that you have expressed your best moments in Art. Not in relationships or romance or sex or economics," he answered.